wired — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.

2. Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.

3. Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.

4. Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.

   Gebrauch

   • Slang

   Beispiele

   After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.

   I drank a jar of coffee / And then I took some of these / And I'm totally wired

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   I'm walking through streets that are dead / Walking, walking with you in my head / My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired

   Too wired to die, too under fire to think

5. Having wiry feathers.

6. All worked out; completely understood.

   Gebrauch

   • Slang

   Beispiele

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   You find out where the rocks are, how the waves are breaking over the rocks or reef. Find out if there's any funny little fish who might be mad - things like that. What we call "getting a place wired." After you get it wired, it's just like... riding waves back in the U.S.A., except you aren't. You're in Africa.

7. Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.

   Gebrauch

   • Slang

   Synonyme

   back to back

8. Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.

   Gebrauch

   • Slang

   Beispiele

   I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

9. Connected to the Internet; online.

   Gebrauch

   • informell
   • of people or communities

   Beispiele

   In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.

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   Coffee drinkers now have yet another way to get wired. Laptop and Tablet PC users can have their double grande mocha lattes and surf the Web simultaneously at STARBUCKS[…]

Adjektiv

1. equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service

   Antonyme

   wireless

   Beispiele

   a well-wired house

2. tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline

   Synonyme

   pumped-uppumped uppumped

   Beispiele

   we were really pumped up for the race

   he was so pumped he couldn't sleep

3. tied or bound with wire

   Beispiele

   wired bundles of newspapers

4. having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices

   Synonyme

   bugged

   Beispiele

   wired hotel rooms

   even the car is bugged